Where does Illumina, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Illumina, Inc. ranks #501 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Illumina, Inc. hold?

Illumina, Inc. holds 890 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 98 technology areas.

What is Illumina, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Illumina, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 68.2 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Illumina, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Illumina, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +125% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Illumina, Inc.'s patents?

Illumina, Inc.'s patents average 17.1 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Illumina, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Illumina, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Illumina, Inc. focus on?

Illumina, Inc.'s top technology area is C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes) with 445 patents, ranking #3 of 2,502 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 98 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 890 granted patents across 98 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Micr).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Illumina ranks #501 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 890 patents across 98 technology areas.

#501
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.2/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +125%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R501 · US Corporation #501 · 890 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 890 grants
TOP-DECILE #501/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nissan North America
CPC-WIDE C12Q · 98 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +125% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nissan North America, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Illumina’s 68.2 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 23.5 pts (34%) Velocity 9.5 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Subaru · near

68
Duke University · near

68
Illumina · this assignee

68
Macom Technology… · near

68
View · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Illumina's Innovation Score is 68.2/100 (top 1% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Illumina?

Each dot is one of Illumina’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Illumina’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Illumina vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Illumina's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Illumina, Inc. received 541 grants versus 240 in 2015–2019 (+125% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 128 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 35. Lead class C12Q accounts for 50% of the portfolio across 98 subclasses. Volume neighbours: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (#497) and Stmicroelectronics, Inc. (#505).

Illumina's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Illumina, Inc. moved from 255 to 362 grants (1.42x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #506. See the growth leaderboard.

BAE Systems Infor…

900
Omnivision

897
Globalfoundries U…

896
Arkema France

892
Nissan North Amer…

890
Shell OIL Compny

890
Illumina ◀

890
Epistar

889
Stmicroelectronics

888

What this shows Illumina holds 890 patents at rank #501, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Illumina

By rank, the assignees closest to #501 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Illumina's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Illumina, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes), Illumina ranks #3 of 2,502 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Duke University 68 Macom Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. 68 Subaru Corporation 68 View, Inc. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

The Regents of the University of Colorado 17.1 avg Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd 17.1 avg IGT 17.1 avg Texas Tech University System 17.1 avg

Illumina's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

68 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Illumina, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	39	4.4%
2016	35	3.9%
2017	51	5.7%
2018	39	4.4%
2019	76	8.5%
2020	84	9.4%
2021	95	10.7%
2022	112	12.6%
2023	122	13.7%
2024	128	14.4%
2025partial year	109	12.2%

Which technologies does Illumina, Inc. patent most?

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 445

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 256

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 232

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 159

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 129

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 86

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 86

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 70

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 47

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 46

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 44

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 42

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 29

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 29

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 27

Top 15 of 98 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Illumina, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Illumina, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Micr), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12Q
Ranked #501 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Illumina, Inc. against BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.2/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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